The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week, we'll be talking about the new parliament building, PM-WANI, the results of the Rajasthan local polls, and the real estate boom in Mumbai. on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebo...
Dec 13, 2020•31 min
In this episode, we discuss the Indian Capital Markets and investing with Aashish Somaiyaa (CEO, White Oak Capital Management) and Govind Agarwal (Public Markets Investor). India has seen a record number of retail investors enter the markets this year; around 3.4 million new DEMAT accounts were opened in the September quarter, according to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) data, which included 1.3 million accounts in September alone. Aashish and Govind begin the discussion with t...
Dec 12, 2020•50 min•Ep. 73
On this episode of the Bharatvaarta podcast, we discuss the rural – urban dichotomies of India and challenge some long held notions about India’s politics and policy with our guests Abhinav Prakash Singh (Professor, Columnist) and Rohit Jayaraman (Political Commentator). Abhinav begins the discussion with laying the context for the reality the demographic numbers reflect while Rohit talks about the impact that this has had in terms of Politics and Policy. We move on to discussing urban and rural...
Dec 10, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 72
In this episode of the Bharatvaarta podcast we analyse and discuss the significance of the recently concluded Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Polls, where the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) emerged as the single-largest party, winning 55 of the 150 wards in a closely-fought election. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made huge gains to bag 49 wards, followed by The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) which trailed with 44 wards. The Indian National Congress finis...
Dec 08, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 71
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (November 22nd - 29th), we speak about Rajnikanth in Politics, Canada's intervention in Indian politics, Nagaland's infrastructure push, and more. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, an...
Dec 07, 2020•32 min
Sandeep Parekh is India's leading securities lawyer and partner at FinSecLaw. He has practised in Mumbai, Delhi and in the USA, where he completed his LLM degree. Sandeep is closely associated with SEBI, working on several committees which give direction to India's securities markets via policies and rulemaking. Sandeep is also a regular columnist in leading Indian media publications and is quoted extensively on issues of securities law in the international media too. He has authored an importan...
Dec 05, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 70
In September 2019, the Indian government introduced an FDI regime that allowed up to 26% FDI in the "News Digital Media Sector". The Government issued a clarification that it covers aggregators and will apply to entities streaming or uploading news and current affairs on websites, apps or other platforms. In this episode we have Muthuraman Natarajan (Co-founder and CFO - Swarajya) and Sreemoy Talukdar (Senior Editor - Firstpost) talk to Srivatsa Subbanna what these changes actually are and the i...
Dec 02, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 69
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (November 22nd - 29th), we speak about the anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Cyclone Nivar, and FII inflows crossing over 50k crore in November. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Faceboo...
Nov 30, 2020•33 min
The internal working group of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come up with a slew of recommendations around letting NBFCs above a certain size acquire a banking license, letting Payments Banks and Small Finance Banks become full-fledged banks and letting certain large corporates set up banks In this episode, Srivatsa Subbanna hosts Nirav Kanodra (Investment Banker) and Karan Bhasin (Economist & Researcher) as they walk us through these recommendations. We start off by analysing these recomme...
Nov 28, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 68
In this episode, we discuss the Indian Agriculture sector with Mr. Sivakumar Surampudi, Group Head – Agri & IT Business at ITC Limited, which is one India’s best-known conglomerates. Mr. Surampudi is a renowned thought leader with interests in agribusiness, rural marketing, retailing, infrastructure, and poverty alleviation. He led the World’s largest rural digital infrastructure program, ITC eChoupal, which empowers over 4 million farmers across the country. In this discussion, he discussed...
Nov 24, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 67
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (November 15th - 22nd), we analyse the collapse of Laxmi Vilas Bank, Twitter's apology on the India map, BPCL divestment, growth of Parler and more. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, ...
Nov 22, 2020•32 min
It has been a busy couple of weeks, with elections in Bihar and Bypolls in 56 Assembly seats across 11 states. In this episode, our resident political commentators, Aashish Chandorkar, Rohit Jayaraman, and Vivek Khaitan, discuss how these elections have panned out and their political significance. We cover the various political parties’ performance in Bihar and the future for Nitish Kumar and the NDA. We move on to BJP’s performance in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, and other important results in D...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 66
In this episode, we discuss the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s ubiquitous digital payments system that recently crossed 2 billion transactions in a month. Joining us in this discussion are Deepak Abbot, Co-founder of indiagold and former head of Product and Growth @ Paytm – India’s most valued payments company, and Nikhil Kumar, Co-founder of Setu and former Head of the Developer Ecosystem for India Stack (iSPIRT Foundation). Nikhil describes the conception of UPI in 2016 and its visi...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Babasaheb Ambedkar, Pandit Nehru, and Sardar Patel are among the foremost architects of modern India. They are also among the most debated personalities for the far-reaching consequences of their actions and ideologies even today. In this episode, Harsh Gupta (Author, Investor) and Abhinav Prakash Singh (Professor, Columnist) discuss the legacy and significance of these stalwarts and debate the counterfactuals. What would Patel have been like as India’s first Prime Minister? How would Ambedkar r...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 64
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (November 8th - 15th), we analyse the Bihar elections and its implications, Atmanirbhar 3.0 stimulus and how it impacts real estate and other industries, PLI incentive scheme for ten additional industries, Mumbai Indians' dominant IPL victory and more. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by ...
Nov 15, 2020•34 min
Sandeep Balakrishna is a veteran writer, author, editor, speaker and independent researcher with about 20 years of writing on Indian history, culture, literature and temples. He’s also the Founder and Chief Editor of The Dharma Dispatch, which is to quote: “a unique online platform offering rare, valuable, original, and in-depth content aimed at crafting and promoting a cultural narrative rooted in the Sanatana ethos.” In this episode, we discuss the intricacies of writing the history of India, ...
Nov 11, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Shankkar Aiyar is a veteran journalist and author. In a career spanning over three and half decades, Shankkar has worked for leading publications like the Indian Express and India Today. His 1991 story on Indian government pledging the gold reserve highlighted the severe balance of payment crisis faced by India then and shot him to national limelight. His most recent book - The Gated Republic: India's Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions - talks about areas like healthcare, education, se...
Nov 09, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 62
he Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (November 1st - 8th), we look at the controversy around the US Presidential elections, NPCI's UPI diktat, India's new coastal shipping bill and the Indian Government's reform to reduce the compliance burden of BPOs and the IT sector. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on soci...
Nov 07, 2020•31 min
Indian economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic has been a subject of much debate. After a very poor first quarter in the financial year 2020-21, the short term high frequency indicators have also bounced back in a big way. The news flow has been very positive, from investments to trade to consumption data. Is this economic recovery stable? What else does government need to do to help the economy? Is RBI doing enough? We discussed all this and more on this episode of the Bharatvaarta Podcas...
Nov 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 61
It has been over a year since the Government of India revoked the special status, or limited autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Jammu and Kashmir. To discuss what has happened since, and how things might pan out going forward, we are joined by Sunanda Vashisht, an Author and Columnist with family ties to Kashmir, and Sreemoy Talukdar, Senior Editor with Firstpost and a writer on foreign policy, politics and defence. Sunanda and Sreemoy begin the discussion with the...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 60
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (October 25th - Nov 1st), we look at India-France Relations, Indo-US 2+2 talks, Pakistan claiming credit for terrorist attack on India and we talk in detail about PM Modi's interview to the Economic Times.. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaa...
Nov 01, 2020•33 min
Dr Uday Kulkarni is an author of five excellent books on 18th century Maratha history. He is an AFMC, Pune graduate and a retired navy surgeon. Dr Kulkarni started writing about Maratha history a decade back, while still practicing medicine. His first book Solstice at Panipat, describing the 1761 Panipat War, released in 2011 on 250th anniversary of what perhaps is the most significant war in Indian history. He followed it with Bakhar of Panipat (2014), The Era of Baji Rao (2016) and James Wales...
Oct 25, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 58
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (October 18th - 25th), we look at Jet Airway's revival plan, Reliance Jio's 5G push, UPI hitting a billion transactions in the first half of October, DRDO's atmanirbhar push and more. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, faceboo...
Oct 25, 2020•31 min
Voting in the Bihar State elections begins on October 28th and India’s 3rd most populous state goes to polls. Sentiment for the current National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a coalition of Janata Dal United (JD - U) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Nitish Kumar is mixed. While popular consensus is that governance over the last five years has been ordinary, Bihar is among the least affected States in the current COVID crisis. The State has numerous parties, key among them the BJP, JD (U), R...
Oct 23, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 57
This year, employment and work have been impacted like no other time in recent history. While uncertainties loom over what will be relevant going forward, we try to piece together the puzzle with two very senior leaders from the HR & Recruitment industry. Gaurav Chattur, Managing Director - Asia Pacific of Catenon India, and K Sudarshan, Managing Director and Regional Chair for Asia at EMA Partners International, join Roshan Cariappa in a comprehensive discussion on ‘The Future of Work’. The...
Oct 21, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 56
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week (October 11th - 18th), we look at the success of Nal se Jal in Goa, the Nobel Prize for Economics, Construction of Srinagar-Leh tunnel and more. In this episode, we have Aashish Chandorkar, Srivatsa Subbanna and Roshan Cariappa discuss these topics. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by fol...
Oct 20, 2020•35 min
Aashish Chandorkar speaks to Siddharth Shirole, Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Shivajinagar constituency in Pune. This conversation is about Mr Shriole's work during the Coronavirus pandemic, of which Pune has been a global hot spot. We also talk about the first-time MLA's vision for Pune and take a peek in his personal life. Shri. Siddharth Shirole is the son of veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mr Anil Shirole, who was a Member of Parliament from Pune for a term. Siddh...
Oct 17, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Kunal Kapoor is an actor, writer, producer, and entrepreneur. He made his Bollywood debut as the male lead opposite Tabu in Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities in 2004. His next film, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Rang De Basanti, won him accolades for his acting, including a nomination in the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award category. The movie went on to become a cult classic. Acting aside, in 2012, Kunal co-founded Ketto.org, an online fundraising platformm, and has championed numerous social cau...
Oct 15, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 54
We are less than a month away from the US Presidential elections and things are starting to heat up. There’s all of the drama and excitement that such a high stakes event can induce, but there’s also some nervous anticipation in terms of what this will mean to the country itself and what it will mean to us here in India. Joining us on this fascinating deep dive are Abhishek Paul and Rohit Jayaraman – who look at the numbers as they are and discuss the nuances of the elections for our audience. W...
Oct 13, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 53
‘A New Idea of India’ is an endeavour to ask the important, unresolved questions about India’s past & future. This book has been co-authored by popular political and policy commentators, Harsh Gupta and Rajeev Mantri . In this free-flowing conversation, Harsh and Rajeev explain why they wrote the book and delve into the nuances of the book’s key ideas. They address the fundamental question of why ideas are important and how they affects politics and policy, following which they debate the ‘I...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 52
